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| Monday, Apr 27, 2009 @07:00pm EDT The royal divorce and a stamp of approval for moving the main post office, it all made news this very week in decades past. Here's News 8 Now's Dave McKinley with News 8 Then.
10 years ago this week came official word from the mother country, that after years of separation, Charles and Diana were making their divorce official.
Here in the colonies, Seal cleaned up at the Grammys, Kurt Wait became the first man to ever win the Pillsbury Bake Off and Mortal Kombat was growing in popularity. A great debate swirled over V-chips and the call by some for Congress to intervene to curb sex and violence on TV.
"Historically we're taught that Cain killed Abel, but I don't think he had to watch NYPD Blue to come up with the idea," said Network television producer Bob Gale.
A point as valid today perhaps, as it was this week in 1996.
20 years ago this week, a local landmark was in the midst of demolition, though it's not the way you probably remember it--or would even care to for that manner. We pose this week's News 8 Then pop quiz which is, do recognize what this place is, as it appeared this week in 1986.
30 years ago this week, when --no your eyes would not have been playing tricks on you, that was the price of gas, it was also the beginning of the end for the main post office downtown.
"The government wants to move its main post office from here downtown, to a new structure being build on Jefferson Road in Henrietta," reported News 8.
Soon to be supplanted by the one being built on Jefferson Road, and which still serves as Rochester's main post office today.
40 years ago this week drivers were getting used to the new one way traffic patterns on major arterials downtown and "roller" figure skating was a popular thing at the Olympic Park Rink. Did you know that 95 percent of the costume jewelry peddled in the Untied States through direct sales--was made in Wayne County? It was produced at Sarah Coventry and its sister company--Emmons, which had sprawling factories next to each other in Newark
Then as now, the Rochester Police Department had a cadet program, where teenage males could get a taste of police work and then possibly join the academy when they were old enough--all at a hefty salary of a dollar-25 an hour.
Among those trainees was a fresh faced 18-year-old by the name of Lynde Johnston, and by the way if you see Captain Johnston out there any time soon, you just might want to thank him for his more than 40 years of service with the R.P.D., which continues today, and which began in the days of News 8 Then.
Here's the answer to this week's News 8 Then pop quiz. We asked if you recognized this regional landmark, as it appeared 20 years ago this week while it was being demolished.
You're looking at what remained of Roseland Park in Canandaigua, which had closed for good some 5 months before these pictures were taken this week in 1986.
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